“When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it,” these words of Robert Henri, an American painter and teacher are very true. This is exactly what the Marathi film ‘Nude’ deals with. Nude models from economically affected backgrounds who cannot tell the world outside what work they do. The film…

cognisance after meeting of stakeholders Mumbai : Sugar is the sweet poison for the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) government at the Centre and three sugar-producing states, namely Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka, which will soon go to polls. The local sugar prices have dipped drastically by 17 percent since last year, the sugar mill owners…

Mumbai: Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, is in the news again – for all the wrong reasons. In a sequel to the row over Jinnah’s portrait at Aligarh Muslim University, BJP legislator from Malabar Hill — Mangal Prabhat Lodha — has demanded that Jinnah’s bungalow in the city should be taken over by…

Mumbai: The recent incidents of rapes of two minor girls and the delay shown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the problem has not gone down well with the Congress party. Dr Shashi Tharoor the Congress Member of Parliament (MP) while addressing the members of All India Professionals Congress (AIPC) said the government shielding…

Advocate Prakash Ambedkar, in an interview with Neeta Kolhatkar of the Free Press Journal, has alleged that the Supreme Court has tried to legislate in the matter and they are responsible for the violence witnessed on Monday. Q. You have held the SC responsible for the violence and for trying to legislate? Ans. Yes, the…

Mumbai: The most feared cop in Mumbai police force, retired Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Vasant Dhoble, is still tirelessly working on his mission, ‘missing persons’. What started as his last posting has now taken him beyond new boundaries, to come up with a software for ‘face recognition’ which will not only help find missing…

Mumbai: The rodent scam is getting murkier and points to a bigger fraud. The registered address of the rat-catcher company, Vinayak MSSM, does not exist. Moreover, the sanstha owner is said to have died in 2008. However, as per Ram Kadam, this very registered company was given the contract for ‘eradication of rats’ even in…

Mumbai: Two charitable trusts, Action for Good Governance and Networking in India and Public Concern for Governance Trust have filed Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court (HC) against the State of Maharashtra, The Director General of Police (DGP), Commissioner of Police (CP), Mumbai, Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh, Republican Party of India (RPI), Bahujan…

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court (HC) on Friday directed to appoint a three member committee to probe into the violations by the two eateries, Mojo Bistro and 1Above. A division bench of Justices R M Borde and RG Ketkar was listening to two of Public Interest Litigations (PILs) in Kamala Mills fire on December 29,…

Mumbai: Speaking of the slow progress in investigations in the killings of Dr Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and Kannada writer Kalburgi, advocate Abhay Nevgi informed the division bench of Bombay High Court (HC) that the country’s image had been tarnished. “The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and New York Times have published the killings and slow…

Mumbai: In a major relief to both Chhagan Bhujbal, the former deputy chief minister of Maharashtra and his nephew Sameer, a two-judge apex court bench has set aside the order of the Bombay High Court passed by J Mohit Shah in 2014, directing inquiry into fees of four institutes of Chhagan Bhujbal’s MET Trust. In…

Mumbai: The finance minister Artun Jaitley, in his speech stated the government of India does not consider crypto currency legitimate. Investors who have been trading in bitcoins have lauched off this tall claim. One investor who spoke to Free Press Journal has been a legal investor in crypto currency and now been able to fund…